I’ve only read Orbital (love) and The Safekeep (immense dislike, and I feel about it the way you do about Creation Lake, that it should be no where near a prize).
Oh no I cant get on board with that review at all I’m afraid - other people are missing that “it’s a work of fiction that does not pretend to be representative of reality” but you harangue it because it doesn’t “capture what it means to be a queer woman, and the queer experience”?
I’ve only read Orbital (love) and The Safekeep (immense dislike, and I feel about it the way you do about Creation Lake, that it should be no where near a prize).
But Jo didnt you find it so intimate and detailed? I trembled like a dry brown leaf in a late low gale!
https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbeforemidnight/p/the-safekeep-yael-van-der-wouden?r=4o2hjw&utm_medium=ios
Oh no I cant get on board with that review at all I’m afraid - other people are missing that “it’s a work of fiction that does not pretend to be representative of reality” but you harangue it because it doesn’t “capture what it means to be a queer woman, and the queer experience”?